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Henry Harris tells you HOW TO"

HANDLE. YOUR BOSS!!!

* you saw your boss drowning, working out his childish emotions is with a sweet cavalier would you lift a finger to save in teasing, bullying, being rude and smile on your face.

hirn?

I know a couple of employers who'd have a slim chance if they couldn't swim. “

The only sort of leadership that's worth a tinker's damn is making people want to do things for you Ten per cent of the art of bossing is knowing what to do the other 90 per cent. is making people want to do it.

Does your boss make you want to do things for him? Fm afraid lots of you will say, No! No! No!

whatnot.

He's got to be top man He's bound to be inefficient because he's more interested in his emotions than in his jobe and

mance is grand, enjoy it?

His perfor has

If he criticises you rightly Smallman, of course you're right,” and ask him for further hints and suggestions.

Rudeness he cultivates, because-

If you ARE dead right in a big to him-it is a sign of strength.

way-pretend to be insulted and go Sometimes he's the office sadist.

He teases, mentally tortures, off the deep end. Time will protect intimidates, bullies people until you. they lose health, nerve, confidence and efficiency. Until they'd gladly: murder him. I know. victims. “

own best

man

he works best.

You all know the fusspot, the nagger, the nonstop criticiser, the mean boss, the tactless boss

It takes very little to send him either into the tantrums or into tears. He is hurt. It is personal insult most ungrateful Everything must be done in a cer-

his way

Then there's also the salve-driver. Either he's got much more energy tain fixed way. I've seen some of his than most people and doesn't re-

In truth, he is inefficient and nags alise it.

everyone else into inefficiency He's Still, we can't all pick and choose.

In which case, "Naturally, Mr. got no perspective or judgment. Or If you understand your man, you Another bully-boss I know is

"He tries to Strongman, if I could work at your he'd know that fretting one's ener can make your job a lot easier and proud of his cunning.

may do his subordinates down-to outwit pace or do what you do I should gies on trivialities is more wasteful pleasanter. Nay, more, you

He's acutally jealous of expect your salary. Don't you than a tiny error that can quickly even train him along the right path. them.

them...

For instance, here's a boss I know. How would you deal with him?

Instead of co-operating, he is competing with them. In fact, he's Mr. P. doesn't know the meaning a grand worker for the opposition of the word “praise." If your work's firm. perfect, he's sure to find a hole to pick.

When things go right, HE takes the credit. When things go wrong, be e's already decided who's to the scapegoat. There's got to be a scapegoat. He keeps a list of them handy.

It hasn't ever penetrated that a little praise and appreciation at the right time is worth more than a rise of salary to most people. Makes them more efficient and more loyal

JUST SMILE AT HIM!

Best way to counter the bully-boss

THE

think so?"

Mebbe more tactful than that. Or he may have too little im agination. He understands finance or technical ideas or plans-but not people, and what they can do. For him, the same treatment. -

In any case, continue to work at

WORLD GOES BY

By" ULYSSES

be corrected.

The antidote 13 poise at all costs and don't let him is to keep your cahin

infect you with his "jitters. Two

jitterers" don't make a better job of it than one.

The odds are, if you keep your emotional balance, despite provoca- tion, it helps him to keep his." And he's sure to appreciate it after- wards. - "At any rate, you're protect ing yourself from a dangerous con- tagion

THIS ONE FLIRTS

the

SERIOUS problem confronts perturbable temperament, a steady those who are concerned for nerve and a calm and leisurely out- The best thing you can do is to Great Britain's soul. Recent ex-look (For further list, see Ap-

The boss who uses his position to imagine yourself working for the changes of opinion between promin-pendix B, page 32.)

flirt with his women employees puts firm-not for the boss. And working ent representatives of the great There is no game to compare himself in a weak position for the personal kick you get cut of Powers suggest the possibility of a with cricket in testing the morale of he knows it. doing the job well For of praise certain cataclysmic situation for the player. For it is full of situa- A gentle reminder of the dangers or credit, you'll surely get none. which no preparation has been made:tions in which everything-honour, you boter run is enough for this of And how would you deal with There is talk of peace. There may fame, and, above all, the dear old fice Casanova. If he's got any sense, Mr. S.7*

never be another war.

school depends on one single, irre- he be grateful to you Mr. S. resents suggestions and Now, the absence of the possibil vocable act on the part of one single end. candid, constructive advice or

cri-ity of war will cause a gap in our unaided individual. And ire, in hia "ticism in any shape or form. He social system comparable to that turn, depends solely upon the stiff- would hate to think that anyone caused in the masticatory system by ness of one single upper lip. What could think out better ideas. He the dropping overboard of one's ever ordeals life may hold before a knows it al

dental plate during a rough cross-man, none are so fateful as that perfect boss does he ex- He likes yes-men around him ing on the Star Ferry.

occasion when, of tender years, he ist? is grown-up and treats you Yet he is disloyal to his senior em-1 Without war, what will be the went out, last man in and two to like a grown-up. He knows wher ployees. Makes a speciality of basis of national unity? What win, while the captain said, "Now to use praise constructively. Prefers countermanding their orders when shall we put forward as the citizen's Pieface (or Stinker, as the case may to give his employees the edit for

First Duty if it is no longer neces- be), sit on your bất and sary to defend one's country

be can

"Oh, Miss B, drop they can wait-

some dictation.

letters

all ith I have carefully considered

forms of social activity with a view to their use as a National Unifying

cause

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Unless you like him that way!”

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Though he kills initiative and Principle and Object in View. And subsequent discipline in this way, he is the first I have come to the conclusion that are trivial And whenever to say "Well, I don't know. Nobody, there is only one thing that can seems to be able to take any respon- take the place of war as a means or a final notice against a bill of as if you too were a child.

ten dollars, with a jest upon his tions mean more to him than the sibility around here What's the of binding the nation in a commOR

lips, as like as not it is because he job world coming to?”

Actually the man's ineficient. And that, my friends, is Cricket.remembers the last three balls of That's why he's Bant or rave, if you're efficient I have chosen Cricket in prefer that over, and considers his present and dependable and master your job, ence to other games because it is situation, by comparison, mere apnity, a slave driv

ple-pie and custard. At the sight he's bound to need you in the long essentially English in spirit.

That's why he's In other words, it is a gentle of thirteen white clad players on a

judge people sonal like or dis If you want to present him with man's game. It is true that work verdant sward, peace descends

the beholder like a poultice on a useful suggestion, pretend to asking-class people, and even

esting his advice on the matter Then play it. But in so far as they do casually drop the germ of the idea. play it, they become to that ex- It may grow up in his mind until he tent more or believes it is his own

rum.

Tead,

Or if he's a No man, belittle the cricket idea—or suggest the opposite.

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